$100 - Include KVM drivers in pfSense base install
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FreeBSD has out-of-tree virtio drivers[1][2] also some instructions at [3], which provides higher performance in VirtualBox and QEMU/KVM (and BHyve). There also is something going on at [4]
Outcome is for the virtio drivers (NIC and 'block'… kvm clock source would also be good) to be included in the next release base installer.
I think most of the hard work is done, so only $100, oh and the 'beta' status of the drivers is accepted.
[1] http://www.freshports.org/emulators/virtio-kmod
[2] http://people.freebsd.org/~kuriyama/virtio/
[3] http://viktorpetersson.com/2011/10/20/how-to-use-virtio-on-freebsd-8-2/
[4] http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/projects/virtio/ -
Just send those to me or pfsense.org as donations.
I have done the work already just forgot to put them to be built and installed in the images.The patch for this is already there basically.
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hi ermal, which release will these appear in ? i will send through shortly.
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There are on 2.1 builds.
The modules are there for you to load them…. -
FYI- Someone also wrote up a short howto about using them
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,50128.0.html
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$100 usd donated!
